As You Were Saying

American Writers Respond to Their French Contemporaries

Häftad, Engelska, 2007

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'As You Were Saying' pairs some of America's best writers with their French contemporaries, to show the importance of considering - and responding to - the world beyond one's borders.

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Utgivningsdatum2007-06-14
Mått167 x 215 x 7 mm
Vikt154 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieFrench Literature
Antal sidor73
FörlagDalkey Archive Press
ISBN9781564784742

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Javier Marias is an award-winning Spanish novelist. He is also a translator and columnist, as well as the current king of Redonda. He was born in Madrid in 1951 and published his first novel at the age of nineteen. He has held academic posts in Spain, the US (he was a visiting professor at Wellesley College) and Britain, as a lecturer in Spanish Literature at Oxford University. He has been translated into 34 languages, and more than six million copies of his books have been sold worldwide. In 1997 he won the Nelly Sachs Award; the Comunidad de Madrid award in 1998; in 2000 the Grinzane Cavour Award, the Alberto Moravia Prize, and the Dublin IMPAC Award. He also won the Spanish National Translation Award in 1979 for his translation of Tristram Shandy in 1979. He was a professor at Oxford University and the Complutense of Madrid. He currently lives in Madrid.